Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another big step in Haydn scholarship was taken in Manhattan last week when the New Friends of Music (no kin to the Vienna Friends) played the first of five editions by Musicologist Alfred Einstein (distant kin to Physicist Albert Einstein) of "new" symphonies probably never played since Papa Haydn conducted them for the Esterhazys a century and a half ago: Nos. 67, 71, 77, 80, 87. Having examined all the great Haydn collections, except the Esterhazys', Dr. Einstein had made diligent revisions, here deleting a spurious passage put in by an overenthusiastic conductor, there restoring an eccentric "lost" bagpipe...
...broadest of the new examinations are those for the positions of Junior Economist and Junior Administrative Technician. These require that the applicant shall have majored either in Economics or Government while in college. In addition, other more specialized fields are open to the biologist, the chemist, and the physicist...
...action there is an equal and opposite reaction" does not apply so accurately in the field of human relations as it does in the field of natural science. Professor Percy Bridgman, famed member of the University's Physics Department, has ignored this truth in his recent "Manifesto by a Physicist," and the omission has had repercussions which already have increased the gravity of the initial offense. Scientists from all over the country have been endorsing Bridgman's stand until now it seems likely that this individual protest may well become the spearhead of a concerted anti-fascist attack...
Emphasizing that he made his stand entirely in his individual capacity and not in connection with a university policy, Bridgman bombarded the totalitarian states with his " 'Manifesto' by a Physicist" in which he stated that he has decided to close his laboratory to visits from citizens of Fascist governments...
...exiled German physicist, of the "theoretical and dogmatic" school now under current condemnation by the scientific precinct captains of the Third Reich, telegraphed to the local committee his hope of "lasting success," and added...